On 02.07.2017 22:01, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On 2 July 2017 at 21:39, Kirill Müller wrote:
| Hi
|
| An upgrade to R 3.4.1 on Ubuntu removed the default setting of
| R_LIBS_USER in /etc/R/Renviron. What's the rationale behind this? Thanks.
Pretty much exactly what I told you in person last week :)
- idea is to prefer /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/
- multi-user more important than per-user
Also see https://bugs.debian.org/866768
The transition may be too harsh though. I did not consider the possibility of
/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/ *not* being writeable. So what I could do is
to re-add the per-user directory as a fall-back after the preferred
/usr/local/lib/R/site-library.
Thanks. The site-library is owned by root/staff on my system, and my
user isn't member of the staff group (Ubuntu 17.04). I'm not sure how
this looks on a factory-fresh install, but IMO users should be able to
just use install.packages().
-Kirill
Dirk
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